Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Carrier union chief receives threats after Trump launches Twitter attack. Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers 1999 which represents Indianapolis Carrier employees, told NBC News that he has been harassed and threatened after President-elect Donald Trump attacked him on Twitter for fact-checking Trump’s claim that he saved over […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Thumbnail image via Flickr. So Wally World is anti-union, as well as one of the lowest of the low when it comes to all-around workers’ rights, and even the right to marry. What’s a person with limited income to do? Here’s some great options to make it through […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Image: Labor Day, circa 1900, Buffalo NY via Wikimedia Commons license Labor Day began during a time when people in the United States were working 12-hour days, seven days a week to survive. (Sound familiar?) Children were working, too – some as young as 5 and 6 years old […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit It’s break time for teachers. They’ve got some days off for the holidays, and with that sometimes comes the whole conversation about teachers, what they make, how much time they get off, etc. Those who teach our kids in the U.S. school system are under attack in many states — […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Someone needs to tell NABISCO that these jobs are not negotiable. Mondelez/NABISCO is planning to move 600 jobs — the people that make those very items and more — to Mexico. In a powerful video from the very people who are going to lose those jobs, the question asked is, […]